Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Like a lot of model railroaders I fell victim to advertising and bought a few locos that are too big to turn on my turntable. And I'm not going to be able to build the reverse loops as I had planned. So how can I turn these long, heavy, and in some ways delicate locos?. Lets take a look at a product from DCCconcepts that is solving my problem and may work for you--enter the portable reverse loop.
The USA vendor for the MPD is ironplanethobbies.com and in Canada www.locomotiveworks.ca. There also are a number of vendors in the UK and in Australia so check your local dealers there.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:52 Background
2:35 MPD first look and sizes
3:38 A closer look
4:58 Maintenance cradle
5:30 MPD construction
652 Design purposes
8:30 On the layout
9:35 PRR T1
10:07 The 180 flip
11:23 The Challenger
13:10 Big diesels
14:10 ABA consist
15:30 Boxing the E6's
17:20 DCCconcepts' test
19:42 Wrapup
Like a lot of model railroaders I fell victim to advertising and bought a few locos that are too big to turn on my turntable. And I'm not going to be able to build the reverse loops as I had planned. So how can I turn these long, heavy, and in some ways delicate locos?. Lets take a look at a product from DCCconcepts that is solving my problem and may work for you--enter the portable reverse loop.
The USA vendor for the MPD is ironplanethobbies.com and in Canada www.locomotiveworks.ca. There also are a number of vendors in the UK and in Australia so check your local dealers there.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:52 Background
2:35 MPD first look and sizes
3:38 A closer look
4:58 Maintenance cradle
5:30 MPD construction
652 Design purposes
8:30 On the layout
9:35 PRR T1
10:07 The 180 flip
11:23 The Challenger
13:10 Big diesels
14:10 ABA consist
15:30 Boxing the E6's
17:20 DCCconcepts' test
19:42 Wrapup
